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A 2024 review found that intermittent fasting may be associated with small reductions in waist circumference and fat mass in people who are overweight or obese.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Waist circumference is much easier to measure and is increasingly included in clinical guidelines, according to the researchers.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Where body fat accumulates can be important for health, which is one reason waist circumference can provide information that BMI alone does not capture.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Head circumference is commonly used as a general indicator of brain size in newborns.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

I used the resin and straps to make two 10-meter circumference loops.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

The helmets are marked as large, for head circumferences between 22.5 to 25 inches.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

Helmet sizes are measured by head circumference, and helmets usually come with adjustable dials to accommodate a range of circumferences.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2022

During an inspection Dec. 15, Sampson observed “numerous” branches with 2- to 8-inch circumferences that were severed by the aerial saw and allowed to fall from 150 feet above, according to the violation notice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

A meager set is a set contained in the countable union of nowhere dense sets, such as the circumference of a circle in the plane, or finitely or countably many such circumferences.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2021

Now all these circumferences have for a common tangent the straight line BN; namely the same line which is drawn as a tangent from the point B to the circumference SNR which we considered first.

From Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens